Genres

We had the genre 'Drama' in mind when taking this shot. Chris manages to obtain a strange body image in this photo, with focal points both on his face and his hand actions near his neck. His hand gives the illusion of him stabbing his own neck, which represents a dramatised film as it makes you wonder what is wrong with him? What has happened to make him want to do that to himself? The striking facial expression on his face immediately attracts the viewers attention. The other character in this image, Ben, is just simply standing there which emphasises the dramatic side of this film. Why would someone not try and stop what they are seeing? Ben's reaction to this scene illustrates how what Chris is doing is not new, as if he is used to seeing things like this before, which again makes viewers wonder what is wrong with this person who is stabbing himself? What is the history to this scene and what will happen afterward?

This image was taken to reflect the genre of thriller. The mysterious nature of this image obtains a thrilleresque feel to it as it creates a puzzled and confused scene in the viewers mind. The vulnerability of the eye emphasises a viewers emotion when watching a thriller movie because of the frequent dramatic scenes appearing in this genre of film, these dramatised scenes create a sometimes fearful or enthusiast emotion towards the film. Because the eye is opened so wide, it reflects how suggests how each viewer is open to different interpretations of thriller films, as some may find them scary and other engaging and up lifting.

This image was taken to portray a genre of a documentary film. As you can tell when observing this image;  Chris is closely paying attention to the rock. The position of Chris' hands give the illusion toto the viewers that he is paying full attention to and studying aspects of the rock, which all documenters do when filming. Although we was limited in our locations to take our shots, the grass and the daylight scenery creates a suitable setting for the purpose of the photo, a nature documentary. The restricting red and white ribbon was unintentionally featured in the shot, however when overviewing the photos we decided that it looks as though Chris has authorised accused to banned areas, making the photo look more professional. 

'Comedy' was the genre we had chosen to represent this image. The simplicity of this shot is what creates the comical nature of this film. Chris is simply just falling over, which is funny in its self as it portrays a clumsy character. We can tell that the use of Chris falling over is for it to be funny rather than dramatic because of his facial expression which is a mid laugh kind of smirk. The setting is in broad daylight and on a flat surface which highlights the clumsiness of the character as there was nothing for his to slip over on, neither did he fall because it was too dark to see where he was going - it was just a tricky bit of flat!